About me

My
name is Mark Hinkle. I was born and raised in Kenai, Alaska in the 70’s. At that
time, not only was Kenai a very small town of a few thousand people, but my family
lived several miles out of the town itself. While there were hardware stores and
therefore tools available
of course, they weren’t as readily available as they are today. Even so, when
they were, we didn’t always have the money to be able to just buy a tool when
we needed to. If a tool broke, or didn’t function as it should, we were shut
down whether the project was building a home, fixing the car, or building an
outhouse (just kidding, we didn’t live in igloos and had indoor plumbing and
everything, although our very good friends, the Kuhls did have to hand pump
their water.) Our tools had to last.

So that’s the physical side of things, there’s
a psychological side too. Although I am a child from the frivolous spending of
the 80s, I was taught that the instant gratification and the throw away
lifestyle that goes with it is a destructive mindset. As one of my oldest and
best friends spells out here,
if you have the knowledge of what to look for, you can invest (yes, invest, it
can actually make you money) in a tool and it can last not only your lifetime,
but the lifetime of generations.

Through my life, I was ASE certified and
owned my own auto repair service, assembled manufactured homes, worked as a
counterman and outside sales at NAPA Auto, endured a five year apprenticeship program
to get my electrical license in three states, helped my father as
an AI mechanic to work on airplanes (my father being the AI, not me.) and finally started a business designing,
building and raising timber frame structures.

All of these positions have allowed me to
have a tool in my hand. Using them, breaking and fixing them, modifying them, and
generally learning what is good, and what is crap.

I currently live in Washington state, U.S.A
and I am designing and building my own timber frame home. I built this website hoping
to help people through the things that I’ve struggled through myself to make
their work a little easier. And if I can make a buck or two in the process,
well then we all get something out of it. God bless the internet : )>.

I've
had people telling me that they are interested in starting a web site but have
no idea ...

I was introduced to web site development by
a girl I was dating at the time. I was very skeptical because, like you I'm
sure, I had seen many schemes set up for less than desirable business ideas, or
just down right ways of taking your money. But I trusted her
opinion and as I looked more into SBI, I began
to see that it was nothing like those other companies. It’s founder, Ken Evoy
is a family man who is actively involved in a very positive way with purchasers of SBI (lurking for a while on the forums will prove that to you),
the company started in 1997, so has been around a while, and
the process they use for building the web sites themselves made total sense. Even with all these reasons, the clincher
for me was the 100% money back guarantee. I used it…it’s legit. I couldn’t
start right away and the 1 year clock was ticking so I got my money back and later
repurchased to start this site.

Do yourself a favor
if you’re interested at all in owning a website and if at this time next year you
want to be working on and making money from your own web site instead of
sitting there and reading mine, check SBI out further.

Thanks for reading about me, and I hope you
can find some helpful info on the site. If you have any questions or suggestions,
please drop me a line.

Thanks!

Mark
Hinkle

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